Helping Deep-Tech Startups & SMEs Align IP Strategy with Business Goals

Secure your sweet spot in the market with business-driven IP strategy

  • Create sustainable competitive advantages
  • Leverage IP strategy to generate revenue
  • Use IP strategy to mitigate business and legal risks
  • Improve your market position
  • Attract funding
  • Enable strategic collaborations and partnerships
  • Future-proof your business by fostering a culture of continuous innovation

IP Business Strategy Services

Our comprehensive suite of IP Business Strategy services offer deep-tech startups and other technology-based businesses the necessary expertise, know-how and frameworks to succeed in increasingly competitive markets.

Business Modeling

Analyzing, developing, and improving business models by aligning customer needs, value propositions, and key resources with business, technical, and legal insights from patent data.

External Analysis: Market Positioning

Assessing your firm’s and competitors’ positions in relevant product/technology markets and value chains using patent landscaping and infringement risk analysis.

Patent Information Services & IP Landscape Monitoring

IP landscape monitoring, utilizing competitors’ business, technical, and legal patent information for competitive business decision-making. Patent search services concerning novelty, validity, infringement risk, and patent landscaping.

Internal Analysis: Claiming valuable IP and IPRs

Identifying and capturing key technologies and knowledge as legally controllable resources, forming the basis of a sustainable competitive advantage and a strong IP portfolio.

IP Strategy development

Aligning IP activities with business goals to create sustainable competitive advantages using IP design thinking to protect valuable innovations, develop commercialization strategies (licensing/sales), mitigate IP risks, attract funding and collaborators, and foster a culture of continuous innovation.

Fractional IP Manager Service (Limited availability – contact for more information)

Fractional IP manager service ensuring effective implementation (and updating) of the developed IP business strategy and handling all IP management activities within a firm. The service largely follows internationally standardized IP management frameworks for quality.

Sebastian Bisso Mifflin

LLB Bachelor of Laws, Maastricht University / MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, Chalmers University of technology

IP Business Consultant, Founder of IP Nostromo

  • 2019-present IP Nostromo: Founder & IP Business Consultant
  • 2021-2022 Innovation Consultant at GU Project Accelerator AB 
  • 2022-2025 Commercialization Officer / IP specialist at Helsinki Innovation Services (UH Technology Transfer Office)
  • Business development and IP strategy experience in technology domains of medical & diagnostic devices, IoT, green energy, smart textiles, agricultural biotechnology, food technology, air quality monitoring and more.

Training

  • Advanced Patent law studies at University of Copenhagen
  • Advanced Intellectual Asset Management and Entrepreneurship studies at Chalmers University of Technology
  • Advanced studies on IP in the Industry 4.0 at CEIPI University of Strasbourg

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Insights

Article #1: First Steps Towards a Business-Driven IP Strategy